In praise of em-dashes

[randy_byers]

My response to the recent screed against em-dashes is that I love em-dashes so much that half my love for silent movies is for the frequent use of double em-dashes in the intertitles:

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[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure how consistent the use of double em-dashes as a colon is. I actually had some trouble finding a good example of the double em-dash via Google, and I couldn't find any from movies I've actually seen. But silent film intertitles are the only place I've run across double em-dashes, and I'm curious how they came to be used. I really do find them beautiful.

And yes, the silent Call of Cthulhu is wonderful. The HPLHS' next film, The Whisperer in Darkness, is close to being finished, from what I've heard.